Summary: This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has being imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help and sometimes hindrance of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SOUSummary: The themes, images, and cultural vernacular of Victor Fleming's The Wizard of Oz continue to haunt David Lynch's filmography from his early short "The Alphabet" to his television series Twin Peaks: The Return. Is Lynch trapped in the Land of Oz? If so, what can we learn about his body of work by closely examining how it intersects and communicates with that legendary fantasy? In turn, what do...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two very different sisters inherit a funeral home and its eccentric employees from their koro. While Ellie is determined to uphold her grandfather's legacy, Gwen can't wait to get to Bali and become a DJ. Can they figure out their lives while staring death in the face?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOOSummary: After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Constantine Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld in an increasingly desperate, and dangerous attempt to get his brother out of jail. Over the course of one adrenalized night Constantine finds himself on a mad descent into violence and mayhem as he races against the clock to save his brother and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GOOSummary: When a climber encounters a stranded stranger on Mt. Washington, she must get them both down the mountain before nightfall when an oncoming blizzard is due to hit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INFCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INFCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER INFSummary: A 'rescue team' lands on the island and the survivors gear up to go home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD LOSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LOSSummary: A young, handsome man with a Harvard education and success on Wall Street has terrible urges that take him in pursuit of women, greed, and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER AMEStreisand, Barbra.
Contents: I won't be the one to let go / with Barry Manilow -- Guilty / with Barry Gibb -- You don't bring me flowers / with Neil Diamond -- I finally found someone / with Bryan Adams -- Cryin' time / with Ray Charles -- I've got a crush on you / with Frank Sinatra -- Tell him / Celine Dion -- No more tears (enough is enough) / with Donna Summer -- What kind of fool / with Barry Gibb -- I have a love/One...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL STRSummary: When Will leaves Philadelphia to bury his recently deceased father in small-town Lebanon, he forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. As Will becomes interested in CJ's married teacher and CJ confronts her conflicted father, both struggle with decisions about the future paths their lives will take. Lebanon, Pa. tenderly explores the cultural divide...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Monarch Home Video 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LEBPrine, John.
Summary: Several of indie music's most inventive artists and songwriters come together to pay homage to one of America's most acclaimed folk musicians, John Prine, who has been cutting great records since the early 1970s.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Oh Boy Records 2010
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.734 WatkiSummary: Hushpuppy is a six-year-old living in an isolated bayou community. When her father Wink becomes ill, she sets off for the outside world in an attempt to help him. The journey to save her father is delayed by a 'busted' universe that reverses weather patterns and brings about long-extinct animals. Can Hushpuppy save the day?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BEASummary: A small group of former classmates organize an elaborate, annual game of tag that requires some to travel all over the country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TAGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Tag 2018Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TAGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TaMattis, George.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Pub. Co. 1969
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Academy Chicago Publishers 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.3 WASGattis, Ryan
Summary: On December 6, 1993, when a drug dealer called Scrappy is shot and left for dead on the lawn outside her mother's house in South Central Los Angeles, a heroin addict fingers two drug dealers as the killers, but only one of them is guilty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GATYoung, Josh (Joshua D.)
Summary: "Expedition Deep Ocean tells the inside story of this exploration of one of the most unforgiving and mysterious places on our planet, including the site of the Titanic wreck and the little-understood Hadal Zone. The expedition pushed technology to the limits, mapped hidden landscapes, discovered previously unknown life forms and began to piece together how life in the deep oceans affects our...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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Summary: After barely surviving his tour as a mountaineer in the Italian Alps of the Second World War, William Bromley settled down and made a quiet life for himself: teaching history at a London boarding school, reading, a few drinks at the pub on Friday nights. That all ends when a soldier from William's mountain regiment reappears, calling in a bargain struck during the war. William must return to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATWatkins, Sara
Contents: Young in all the wrong ways -- The love that got away -- One last time -- Move me -- Like New Year's Day -- Say so -- Without a word -- The truth won't set us free -- Invisible -- Tenderhearted.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY WATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD WAT COUNTRYWatkins, Steve
Summary: "Anderson finds himself drawn to the old trunk of military relics in the basement of his family's junk shop again. His friends Greg and Julie warn him to stay away from it, but he can't help himself. This time Anderson discovers an old grenade with a strange message scratched into it. But an old grenade is dangerous ... especially when the ghost of a soldier appears, claiming that it's his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC WATBishop, Josh (Joshua D.)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avalon Travel Pub 2009
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI U.P. BishopLevy, Joshua (Joshua S.)
Summary: Seventh-grader Jack and his classmates find themselves in hostile alien territory after Jack accidentally launches their rickety public schoolship light years away from home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEVSTUART, DIANNE WATKI
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: UKY 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILES, JANICE HOLT STUMathis, Johnny.
Contents: Easy does it -- The most beautiful girl in the world -- Miracles -- When the world was young -- Never never land -- Poor butterfly -- Jump for joy -- Joey, Joey, Joey -- I can't believe that you're in love with me -- I love you -- Weaver of dreams -- No man can stand alone.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1996